Talk:Anthropocene

Etymology of Homogenocene

I think the etymology offered for Homogenocene must be wrong. There is no way that "homo" Latin for man would be used in this way. "Homo" appears in compounds as "homini-," not "homo," which form is only used as an independent word ("Homo sapiens"). Homogenocene probably is constructed from the word "homogeneous" + "cene"; the article in which the term first occurred was referring to the homogenization of life across the planet because of transfers of organisms by humans. Homogeneous comes from "homo" "same" and "gen" "kind" in Greek. Metrodorus (talk)

Removed further reading list

I've removed the further reading list, as I don't think such a long list is adding any value here. If any of the publications are very important, they should be used for inline citations.

• Bonneuil, Christophe; Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste.(2016) The Shock of the Anthropocene. The Earth, History and Us, Verso Books. Translated by David Fernbach. Originally published as L’événement Anthropocène: La terre, l’histoire et nous. Le Seuil 2013
• Davies, Jeremy (24 May 2016). The Birth of the Anthropocene (1st, hardcover ed.). Oakland: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-28997-0. LCCN 2015043076. OCLC 926061257. OL 27210120M. Wikidata Q114630752.
• Dixon, Simon J; Viles, Heather A; Garrett, Bradley L (2018). "Ozymandias in the Anthropocene: the city as an emerging landform". Area. 50: 117–125. doi:10.1111/area.12358. ISSN 1475-4762.
• Duarte CM, Chapuis L, Collin SP, Costa DP, Devassy RP, Eguiluz VM, et al. (February 2021). "The soundscape of the Anthropocene ocean" (PDF). Science. 371 (6529): eaba4658. doi:10.1126/science.aba4658. PMID 33542110. S2CID 231808113. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-05-10. Retrieved 2021-05-25.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
• Edgeworth, Matt (October 2021). Brenneis, Don; Strier, Karen B. (eds.). "Transgressing Time: Archaeological Evidence in/of the Anthropocene". Annual Review of Anthropology. 50. Annual Reviews: 93–108. doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-101819-110118. ISSN 1545-4290. S2CID 236363574.
• Ellis, Erle (2018). Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/actrade/9780198792987.001.0001. ISBN 9780198792987.
• Ellis, Erle C.; Fuller, Dorian Q.; Kaplan, Jed O.; Lutters, Wayne G. (2013). "Dating the Anthropocene: Towards an empirical global history of human transformation of the terrestrial biosphere". Elementa. 1: 000018. doi:10.12952/journal.elementa.000018.
• Emmett, Robert, Thomas Lekan, eds. "Whose Anthropocene? Revisiting Dipesh Chakrabarty's ‘Four Theses,’" RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2016, no. 2. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/7421.
• Grinspoon, David (December 2016). "Welcome to Terra Sapiens". Aeon.
• Hamilton, Clive (2017). Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene. Polity. ISBN 978-1509519750.
• Ialenti, Vincent. 2016. "Generation (Lexicon for An Anthropocene Yet Unseen)". Cultural Anthropology: Theorising the Contemporary. Archived from the original on 7 May 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Kim, Rakhyun E. (2021). "Taming Gaia 2.0: Earth System Law in the Ruptured Anthropocene". The Anthropocene Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196211026721
• Kim, Rakhyun E.; Klaus Bosselmann (2013). "International Environmental Law in the Anthropocene: Towards a Purposive System of Multilateral Environmental Agreements". Transnational Environmental Law. 2 (2): 285–309. doi:10.1017/S2047102513000149. S2CID 146464921.
• Kress, W. John; Krupnick, Gary A. (2022). "Lords of the biosphere: Plant winners and losers in the Anthropocene". Plants, People, Planet. 4 (4): 350–366. doi:10.1002/ppp3.10252. S2CID 247388985.
• MacCormack, Patricia (2020). The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1350081093.
• McArthur, Jo-Anne; Wilson, Keith, eds. (2020). Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene. Lantern Publishing & Media. ISBN 978-1590566381.
• Purdy, Jedediah. (2015). "Anthropocene Fever". Aeon. pp. 1–9.
• Ruddiman, William F. (December 2003). "The anthropogenic greenhouse era began thousands of years ago". Climatic Change. 61 (3): 261–293. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.651.2119. doi:10.1023/B:CLIM.0000004577.17928.fa. S2CID 2501894.
• Ruddiman, William F.; Stephen J. Vavrus & John E. Kutzbach (2005). "A test of the overdue-glaciation hypothesis" (PDF). Quaternary Science Reviews. 24 (1): 11. Bibcode:2005QSRv...24....1R. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.07.010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2006.
• Ruddiman, William F. (2005). Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-12164-2.
• Schmidt, G. A.; D. T. Shindel & S. Harder (2004). "A note on the relationship between ice core methane concentrations and insolation". Geophysical Research Letters. 31 (23): L23206. Bibcode:2004GeoRL..3123206S. doi:10.1029/2004GL021083. S2CID 129005632.
• Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew (2017). "Some Islands Will Rise: Singapore in the Anthropocene". Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities. 4 (2): 166–184. doi:10.5250/resilience.4.2-3.0166. S2CID 158809548.
• Sigurðsson, Geir (2016). "Anthropocosmic Processes in the Anthropocene: Revisiting Quantum Mechanics vs. Chinese Cosmology Comparison". In Bala, Arun; Duara, Prasenjit (eds.). The Bright Dark Ages: Comparative and Connective Perspectives. Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy. Vol. 5. Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers. pp. 76–92. doi:10.1163/9789004264199_006. ISBN 978-90-04-26419-9. ISSN 1877-2323.
• Steffen, Will; Crutzen, Paul; McNeill, John (2007). "The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature?". Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment. 36 (8): 614–621. doi:10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[614:taahno]2.0.co;2. hdl:1885/29029. PMID 18240674. S2CID 16218015.
• Steffen, Will; et al. (9 August 2018). "Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene". PNAS. 115 (33): 8252–8259. Bibcode:2018PNAS..115.8252S. doi:10.1073/pnas.1810141115. hdl:2078.1/204292. PMC 6099852. PMID 30082409.
• Thomas, Julia Adeney, Jan Zalasiewicz, "Strata and Three Stories." RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2020, no. 3. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9205.
• Trischler, Helmuth, ed. "Anthropocene: Exploring the Future of the Age of Humans," RCC Perspectives 2013, no 3. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/5603.
• Visconti, Guido (2014). "Anthropocene: another academic invention?" (PDF). Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei. 25 (3): 381–392. doi:10.1007/s12210-014-0317-x. S2CID 128678966.
• "Human-Driven Planet: Time to Make It Official?". Science Now. January 2008.
• Klinkenborg, Verlyn (December 2016). What's Happening to the Bees and Butterflies? New York Review of Books
• Vanishing: The Sixth Mass Extinction, and How to stop the sixth mass extinction (December 2016), CNN.
• Williams, Mark; Zalasiewicz, Jan; Haff, P. K.; Schwägerl, Christian; Barnosky, Anthony D.; Ellis, Erle C. (2015). "The Anthropocene Biosphere". The Anthropocene Review. 2 (3): 196–219. doi:10.1177/2053019615591020. S2CID 7771527.
• 'Ozymandias in the Anthropocene: the city as an emerging landform', Dixon S., et al. (2017) AREA, Royal Geographical Society ISSN 1475-4762

EMsmile (talk) 08:45, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

There are already (as of this writing) 178 reference footnotes, which IMHO is a lot. I notice that the above list is almost alphabetized by author's name (but Ozymandias in the Anthropocene by Dixon et al. is mentioned both at its alphabetical position and at the very end, and Klinkenborg is after Visconti). Maybe this list could be added as a "Bibliography" section, and in a common format with the author name(s) (if any) always in front. I would have suggested a scrolling list (see Help:Scrolling list) with a not too gigantic height (maybe 25 to 30 em), however MOS:SCROLL is against scrolling and collapsible lists in article space — though with a few exceptions: Collapsed or auto-collapsing cells or sections may be used with tables if they simply repeat information covered in the main text (or are purely supplementary, e.g…). Auto-collapsing is often a feature of navboxes. Maybe this list is "purely supplementary information" in which case it might fall into one of the exceptions. — Tonymec (talk) 03:49, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

What would be an advantage of a bibliography list? If any of those references are important they should be used as in-line citations. I think "further reading" lists might have been important in the days before Google but nowadays anyone can easily find more information themselves if they want. Hence we are better off keeping things short and succinct and not bombarding readers with longs lists (which would then have to be curated and updated...). EMsmile (talk) 08:45, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

That's all, folks!

And so the proposed era has been put in the rubbish bin: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/20/climate/anthropocene-vote-upheld.html 182.239.146.143 (talk) 05:02, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

yes, look like that. Good to see that someone has already updated the Wikipedia article accordingly. EMsmile (talk) 12:01, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Call me again in 30 years; I'm fairly confident this isn't the final word on the topic. Newimpartial (talk) 14:17, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

That's assuming that we are here in 30 years Pikachubob3 (talk) 01:18, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

It isn't, I have some of these researchers for professors and they intend to propose it again in a few years once "conditions are more favourable" i.e. there are people more sympathetic to them in the committee. 139.57.217.252 (talk) 16:57, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Also they only are not including it at this point, if we continue the route we are currently going down I would not be surprised like @Newimpartial said, that vote has not closed the book on this. Pikachubob3 (talk) 01:20, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

Great Acceleration

The Great Acceleration appears to be a subtopic of the Anthropocene. It currently has a section here as well as its own article, but the article is short and overlaps with this one. Should the article be merged into the section here? WeyerStudentOfAgrippa (talk) 12:56, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

It appears that the Great Acceleration subtopic still has a link to the "main article". Seeing that said article no longer exists, clicking said link just loads the Anthropocene article again. Should it still be there? CzechMapping (talk) 16:45, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

Well spotted. I've removed the wikilink from the text but couldn't figure out how to remove it from the infobox? EMsmile (talk) 21:31, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

Chronology in the infobox

1. The timespan beginning with 0,000076 is not in compliance with the final proposal of the Anthropocene Working Group, postponing the GSSP from 1950 to 1952: "The GSSP for the Anthropocene series/epoch and Crawfordian age/stage is proposed at 17.0 cm in core CRA23-BC-1F-B at the base of the dark lamina in a varve deposited in 1952 CE, at the level where the primary marker shows a rapid increase in ^239+240Pu concentrations." (BTW, the figure in the box presents the correct beginning in 1952)
2. It is common to date the GPPS in years b2k ("present" = year 2000 CE), then the GSSPs have fixed timing without need to change it each year (see the edit from 3 March 2026). This is applied in the infoboxes of other geological ages (see Meghalayan), why not here?
3. To avoid misleading, the timespan should presented in all such infoboxes in units "Ma b2k (before 2000 CE)"
4. The lower boundary definition in the box is not in compliance with the timing - its origin is in another proposal of the anthropocene definition with dating 1592 (not a misprint).

Petr Karel (talk) 07:54, 4 March 2026 (UTC) corrected --Petr Karel (talk) 07:47, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Item #1 was blatantly wrong, so I have cleared the start_date= parameter from the infobox because it is uncited and uncitable. (There no firm start date as the proposal has not been accepted.)

I don't have the expertise to be bold with your other three points so if you are confident, go ahead and change them on 18 May unless someone else intervenes in the meantime. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 16:02, 13 May 2026 (UTC)